It’s still strange to me that this small blog is actually celebrating 7 years of anniversary. The original idea was only to post a couple of posts/apps that worked on the PowerPC, but we kept finding more and more out there… I already have many bookmarked for future testing, because there are more to come for the PowerPC community.

We did take some time off, because we got busy with our standard jobs and at the end of the day I just wanted to come home and watch Survivor and Amazing Race and go to bed. I kept procrastinating to login and write a new post, putting it off for “tomorrow” which ended up turning to weeks and months….

Now we are back, and I recently purchased a mint condition PowerBook G4 (15”/1.66GHz/1.5GB). I’m very proud of it, it’s a great machine and I’m bringing this blog back to life one more time, and breathing life into my stainless steel PowerPC!

So, if you find yourself like me, coming into possession of a brand new “old” Mac – wondering what the top 5 essential apps you need to have on your computer…then read on! Listed below are the Essential 5 apps for you (in my opinion):

VLC – If you choose to keep your Mac PowerPC free of excessive software, embracing the minimalist movement – then just install this app for your media player, because it will play any type of media movie format. Super powerful! – https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

Gimp – A Classic of the classics – everybody needs to have this app because before the internet you would have a computer to play with apps like Gimp. – https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Right in the middle of 2018, I’m doing my standard search for PowerPC apps and found FinderPop which has brought a whole new life to my “pretty” and “powerful” 15 year old Mac computer.

FinderPop is a simple, yet powerful and intricate app. It will keep everything you need one-click away, for quick and easy access. It’s great for shortcuts and it will help you organize your app like never before.

I’m also pleased to report that it runs on an Intel Mac and our good old friend, Tiger 10.4

Needless to say – it’s Free, so don’t waste your time, click on the link below and install it right away. Just make sure to share your find on your favourite social media page, and don’t forget to tag the app and your favourite blog 😀

For more details, please watch the following video, posted by the developers >

This week, I found a fantastic app that runs and works great on PowerPC – Leopard! Screenium 1.5 or 2.1.8 is software that allows the user to record what’s happening on the screen. Super convenient if you’re someone with a youtube channel, or someone who needs to create an instructional video or training for an online function or program!

There are nice features like recording a fixed area, full screen, mouse area or a single window. Also it has support for microphones, so you can add your comments as you record. You can use a camera as well!

It’s easy to use and the results are fantastic.

It’s not free – so please make sure to contact them before purchasing because you need to make sure they still providing license to this version. The currently version is 3.1.3 and it’s Intel only. This version does however allow a demo try.

I’m very satisfied with the results and this app has a great deal of potential, even being a bit outdated, it still gets the job done very well.

So ladies and gentlemen, this is another great reminder to take your PPC’s out and use them to their full potential!

Sometimes we have these apps that are a must to have installed and we always forget to mention them because we assume everybody already knows about them…

I realized that Audacity is one of these fantastic apps…so I am going to break the cycle of not mentioning the basics…right now.

Audacity is a powerful music editor, recorder and player (also it’s free open source). You can either record your music, edit your tracks for DJs or wannabe sound editors or even for the newest millennial podcastor! A lot of features that you would probably pay big bucks with other apps (that you’d have to purchase), you end up getting for free with Audacity.

So get your PowerPC out of the closet and start playing with Audacity. It’s really fun and maybe we can find yourself with a new hobby or even a new profession.

For my first post, since awhile I don’t add anything here I had this tab opened since forever and here is to share with you all.

TSClientX –

What is TSclientX?
TSclientX is a Windows Terminal Services client for Mac OS X. It
appears to be a regular Mac OS application but is in fact an assembly
of free software working in concert to provide similar (better?)
functionality to the official Remote Desktop Connection from Microsoft.
What makes TSclientX interesting compared to other Mac RDP Clients?
- SeamlessRDP is brought to you by Cendio's SeamlessRDP component.
It was originally introduced in rdesktop 1.5 and just simply rocks.

Well, it’s definitely awhile since we posted here in this blog. Now we are wondering if our MacPowerPC community still using their PPC computer out there.

I took my iBook G4 and give it a try and for my surprise still turning on. I know we are so 2000Late but it’s a beautiful machine and as much as it struggle to do some tasks it’s hard working machine.

Next I will try to catch up where I stopped and see what I still can find out there for our PPC machines. I had so many I would like to share but I got into a really busy years 2016/2017 that I couldn’t focus in doing anything else. I missed going to my Heavy Metal concerts and posting here and now it’s time to put some music on and dig deep for those lost apps that it will make the different (If you still using PPC).

NeO is a powerful outliner built for MacOS X. Using NeO, you can efficiently manage and organize pieces of information. NeO supports basic outliner facilities, such as creating, moving, sorting, grouping, combining and gathering items. And the useful facilities help you manage and organize information.

For some reason I’m getting an issue when I launch this app, I sent report and I hope they will fix it soon, until there let’s wait. The installation went well and seems to be promising app.

With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects, etc.. And once you’ve built your models, you can place them in Google Earth, post them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies.

Sketch Up 7.0 is a powerfull application that it will make our friends designers very happy about it. It’s a new whole reason to keep your Mac PowerPC anywhere in the house for any idea you might have. Simple and powerfull sketch up pro app makes 3D drawing much easier, lots of tips, user friendly, export CAD format and add text and graphics to designs.